woad-adorned

Updated: June 13, 2025

But, then, if M. Blériot, with his flying machine, ear-flaps and goggles, had soared down in the year 54 B.C., let us say, upon my woad-adorned ancestors every family man in Britain was my ancestor in those days at Dover, they would have had entirely similar emotions.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - An Englishman Looks at the World